It depends on how many tags there will be and how many people put in for those tags.

Kind of crazy but back when I started putting in for elk in Colorado, you could draw any elk unit in the state with 5 points - resident or nonresident. I finally burned 22 points on a unit I could have drawn for several years prior to drawing.

I'm curious as to what you mean by "4 pt unit"? But if the GMU in question took 6 pp to draw this year as you stated, it's unlikely to be drawn with less points next year. Chances are that it would take MORE points to draw next year due to point creep, but that depends on the unit.

In a 6 point minimum unit, there may have only been even just one person that got in with six points and everybody else got in with 7 or more, which could mean a lot of people with 6 points didn't get it. But since one person got it with 6 points, then it's a 6 point minimum unit for that year alone, might go another direction the next year due to tag allocations, fires etc...

Ya gotta know how to play the game line bugle. Had 6 tags this season. But I agree, and it's only gettin worse. I hear the talking heads say were a dying breed and I look at all the point creep and people in the woods and I say "when?, where?"

The rapidly declining hunter numbers aren't a myth. 30% drop just since 2009. But those who do hunt, hunt more states and are compressed into less available land because of leasing and outfitting. And a lot more of the remaining hunters bowhunt now. Everybody wants to go west and bowhunt elk and mule deer.